My GI Health - Informational Video

This video presents "My GI Health," a computer-based system that re-imagines how doctors and patients can engage in dialogue. Computers aren't supposed to make things more complicated. They're supposed to simplify the process of sharing information. We need to start using them to strengthen doctor-patient connections.

Working with experts in patient communication and computing technology, doctors at UCLA and the University of Michigan have re-engineered the role of computers in clinical practice. After years of research, the team learned that electronic health records are helpful... to billers, administrators, and the like. But to patients and their doctors, they're not enough. Electronic records store information, sure, but they don't enhance patients' relationship with their doctors. Using this insight as a springboard, the research team created a new system that re-defines how patients and doctors connect with one another. It's a system custom-built by patients and doctors, for patients and doctors. It's called My GI Health.

My GI Health is a model system that currently focuses on gastrointestinal, or GI, symptoms. Whatever the condition, GI or otherwise, the system can be used to understand patients better and empower them like never before.

For more information about My GI Health, contact Brennan Spiegel (@BrennanSpiegel) ([email protected]) at the the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (@CedarsSinaiCORE) or William Chey at the University of Michigan Center for Health Communications Research ([email protected]).